Cultivator



J. J. MIZE.

GULTIVATOR.

(No Model.)

Patented Sept. 12, 1882.

NITED JOHN J. MIZE, OF PELHAM, GEORGIA.

CULTIVATO R.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 264,323, dated September 12, 1882.

Application filed June 27, 1882.

T0 all 107mm z't may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN J. MIZE, a eitizen of the United States, residing at Pelham, in the county of Mitchell and State of Georgia, have invented new and useful mprovements in Oultivators, of which the following is a specitication.

In my improved cultivator the bealn and a diagonal cross-bar at its handle end are cast in one piece, and the curved shovel-carrying standards are secured in verticalopen notehes in the under side of said diagonal crossbar, so as to stand in parallel relation to the beam, extending horizontally from the curved standards behind the diagonal bar to a point in advance thereof, from which they are bent inward in vthe same plane, so as to join the beam at opposite points on both sides, making a strong, durable, and cheap construction, in which the shovels stand in a parallel range with the diagonal bar, giving' an easy draft in loosening the soil between the rows of eorn and making it easy to handle the cultivator. Such a cultivator is shown in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l represents a view in perspective; Fig. 2, a top view, the handles being removed; Fig. 3, a rear view, and Fig. 4: a section of the beam and its notched diagonal cross-bar in perspective.

The handle end of the beam is cast With a cross-bar, a, having a diagonal relation thereto about thirty-four inches long and projecting equally on each side thereof, and forming on the right side an acute angle and on the left side ali obtuse angle. N otches b are cast in the diagonal bar a about eight inches apart, each open at its lower edge, their Vertical Walls being in planes parallel with the beam. This gives a very simple frame for a very advantageous arrangement of the shovel-carrying standards. These standards are formed of wrought-iron bars, the lower end of the curved part c having box-plate, d, secured to its right side, to form a slotted box-seat projection, e, to and upon which the shovel or lnold-board is secured, by a bolt or bolts passing through it and the slot of the box, and bound by a nut elamped against the rear side (No model.)

of the box and standard. The slotted box forms a flush seat with the front edge of the standard and allows the shovel or lnold-board to be set down as it wears away. The neck of the curved standard is horizontal about four inches, and has a thickness and Width just to fit into and fill the notch bin the diagona] beam-bar a, and make aflush joint With its lower edge.

The standards are inserted into the notohes from the under side of the bar, and secured therein by clips g, plat/ed vertically over the bar on eacll side of the neek of the standard, and a tie-bar, h, clamped by nuts Ai against its under edge, so as to bind it against the npper end Of'the notch. As the clip-fastening merely serves to hold the standard-bar in the notch, it may be eheaply formed of round iron, as there is no st-rain upon it, the pressure and strain upon the standard being borne entirely by the diagonal beaIn-bar. The standard-bars thus secured in the notches of the diagonal bars,paraliel to the beam, are firmly supported laterally, while `their connection with the bealn is made by bolting their forward projecting ends to itl by the same screw- 7 bolts and nuts at different points in advance of the diagonal bar--that is, the two end standard-bars are bent inward and bolted at about the middle of the bealn, and the two middle standard-bars are silnilarly bent and secured to the beam. nearer its diagonal bar. This construction gives a bracing support by each standard-bar to the diagonal beam-bar, and the latter braces the standards.

The handlesj are secured to the beam and supported by braces k, bolted to the diagonal bar.

The disposition of the standards and their equal projection in rear ot' the diagonal bealnbar gives a central drat't; and the cheapness and durability of the oultivator are important objects in such implement. The plow-st-andards can be detached, so as to use two or four, as may be required.

I claiml. The beam cast Witha diagonal cross-bar, a, at its handle end, with notehes b, open at its under edge, as described, in colnbinatiou With the Standard-bas and the clips for elamping them Within the said Open notehes, as specified.

2. The combination, in a, cuitivator, of the.

5 beam cast With a didgonl cross-bar, a, at its handle end, having notches b, Open et its nnder edge, With the cuved standard-DMS bolted to the bealn, and means, substantially as described, Whereby they are seeured within szlid Open notches of said diagonal bn, as shown Io and described.

In testimony Whereof l have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscibing Wi'nesses.

JOHN J. MIZE.

WYitnesSes:

J. W. C. ORITOI'IELL, O. LIGI'ITFOOT. 

